CORPORATE TAX COLLECTORS

The Bush plan to privatize Social Security adds up to a shifting of taxing authority from the government, where it is presumably used for public good, to private corporations, where it feeds corporate greed. If this scheme succeeds, it will be the biggest boon corporations have ever experienced and fulfill Bush's idea that freedom, far from providing for civil liberties, is simply the right of corporations to do whatever they want to American citizens.

To any who are tempted to look upon recent positive events in the Middle East as indications that Bush policies for that area are succeeding I would suggest consulting Gandhi's answer to the age old question of whether ends justify means. Gandhi said that if the means are honorable, the end cannot be anything but honorable. In no sense has Bush's lies and deceptions about his pre-emptive war and subsequent polices in the Middle East been honorable. Therefore, in Gandhi's formulation, there is no way anything honorable or, I would add, anything of value, can result from America's recent activities in the Middle East.